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The long-discussed spaceport project on the island of Biak has again attracted public interest after Indonesia’s National Research and Innovation…

In part 1 and part 2 in this series, the author set out the census evidence on Pacific migration and…

This speech was delivered at the launch of the Australian Council for International Development’s (ACFID) State of the Sector Report…

A budget allocation is often treated as evidence of government commitment. For a nurse, community health worker or patient waiting…

In Part 1 of this series, the author set out the census evidence that I-Kiribati are under-represented in Pacific migration…

Although generally positive, the 2025 OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) peer review of Australian aid, discussed on this blog by…

This is the first in a three-part series in which the author, an I-Kiribati researcher, argues that Australia’s and New…

As demonstrated in the previous article in this two-part series, Pacific publishers have seen sharp, unexplained falls in their Facebook…

Facebook is strangling Pacific journalism, with some news organisations losing up to 70% of their audience almost overnight. The sudden…

Australian aid At its triennial national conference, the Australian Labor Party adopted its latest policy platform which says that the…